A Fort Made of Books

Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse Recommended Ages: 12+ This novel, written entirely in poetry, presents itself as the diary of a teenage f...

The Byzantium Bazaar by Stephen Elboz Recommended Ages: 11+ Bridie begins to worry when her Gramps fails to meet her at the train statio...

Ghostlands by Stephen Elboz Recommended Ages: 12+ Amazon informs me I bought this book more than eight years ago, apparently when readin...

The Tower at Moonville by Stephen Elboz Recommended Ages: 10+ A mistreated orphan escapes from his mean uncle to go to an unconventional...

The Prisoner's Apprentice by Stephen Elboz Recommended Ages: 12+ Yanis is a boy who has lived all his life, so far, in a tsarist-era...

The Witch of Clatteringshaws by Joan Aiken Recommended Ages: 10+ My first impressions on reading this last book in the "Wolves Chro...

Cold Shoulder Road by Joan Aiken Recommended Ages: 11+ Following Joan Aiken's "Wolves Chronicles," which I have also seen ...